How to do things with emotions [electronic resource] : the morality of anger and shame across cultures

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서명/저자사항	How to do things with emotions [electronic resource]: the morality of anger and shame across cultures / Owen Flanagan.
개인저자	Flanagan, Owen, 1949- author.
발행사항	Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2021
형태사항	1 online resource
ISBN	0691220980 9780691220987
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Varieties of Emotional Possibility -- Introduction. How to Do Things with Emotions -- Part I. Anger -- Chapter 1. Anger and Morals -- Chapter 2. Anger across Cultures -- Chapter 3. Anger and Flourishing -- Part II. Shame -- Chapter 4. Generic Shame -- Chapter 5. The Science of Shame -- Chapter 6. Shame across Cultures -- Chapter 7. The Mature Sense of Shame -- Part III. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. Emotions for Multicultures -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index
요약	"The world today seems full of anger. In the West, particularly in the US and UK, this anger can oftentimes feel aimless, a possible product of social media. Still, anger is normally considered a useful motivational source for positive social change. Channeling that anger into movements for civil rights, alleviation of socio-economic inequality, and the end of endless wars, has long been understood as a valuable tactic. Moreover, anger is believed to be handy in everyday life in order to protect, and stick up for, oneself. On the flip side, the world today celebrates diminishing amounts of shame. Political leaders and pundits shamelessly abandon commitments to integrity, truth and decency, and in general, shame is considered to be a primitive, ugly emotion, which causes eating disorders, PTSD, teenage pregnancy, suicide, and other highly undesirable circumstances. Having shame is, thus, regularly understood as both psychologically bad and morally bad. In How to Do Things with Emotions, philosopher Owen Flanagan argues this thinking is backwards, and that we need to tune down anger and tune up shame. By examining cross-cultural resources, Flanagan demonstrates how certain kinds of anger are destructive, while a 'mature' sense of shame can be used -as it is in many cultures- as a socializing emotion, that does not need to be attached to the self, but can be called upon to protect good values (kindness, truth) rather than bad ones (racism, sexism). Drawing from Stoic, Buddhist, and other cultural traditions, Flanagan explains that payback anger (i.e., revenge) and pain-passing anger (i.e., passing hurt one is feeling to someone else) are incorrigible, and also, how the Western view of shame rooted in traditions of psychoanalysis is entirely unwarranted. Continuing his method of doing ethics by bringing in cross-cultural philosophy, research from psychology, and in this case widening that to include cultural psychology and anthropology, Flanagan shows exactly how our culture shapes our emotions-through norms and traditions-and how proper cultivation of our emotions can yield important progress in our morality"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Anger. Shame. Emotions. Conduct of life. Anger. Conduct of life. Emotions. Shame. PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
분류기호(DDC)	152.47
언어	영어
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